[mythtv-users] US to postpone analog TV death

Francesco Peeters (linux) francesco at fampeeters.com
Sun Jan 25 11:05:33 UTC 2009


Calvin Dodge wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM, <jarpublic at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jarpublic at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         what i dont understand is how could ANYONE NOT KNOW this was
>         happening?
>             stations have been broadcasting blurbs at the bottom of
>         the screen
>         *even on cable which makes no sense at all* for a year or
>         more.... are
>         people really THAT blind?
>
>
>     The primary argument isn't that people don't know about it. It is
>     that people aren't ready because the government program to
>     subsidize the converter boxes ran out of money two months before
>     the transition date. They provided enough funds for everybody who
>     currently is using broadcast tv to get 2 converter boxes. However,
>     lots of additional people ordered them. I suspect many people are
>     switching to broadcast because the word is getting out about the
>     high quality digital signal can provide. Also lots of the coupons
>     were ordered and never used, but they haven't expired yet. So they
>     wait until they expire and then they issue more with the money
>     that is freed up. They should just get it over with, it isn't
>     going to be the end of the world if folks can't watch TV for a few
>     weeks.
>
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> The secondary argument is that a key Obama tech advisor (R. Gerard 
> Salemme 
> <http://newsroom.clearwire.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=214419&p=irol-govBio&ID=168963>) 
> is the executive VP of a company which will profit handsomely if the 
> switchover is delayed.  See 
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090114-4g-war-conflict-of-interests-loom-behind-possible-dtv-delay.html 
> for more info.
>
> Calvin Dodge

But wouldn't that be a good thing? WiMAX is the open source standard, 
LTE the proprietary stuff... WiMAX is already being tested in many 
locations of the world, and has some good experience... Do we want 
multiple, incompatible standards again?...

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Francesco Peeters
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